HEW JERStVY TEACHER * COLLfcAjk Power The Attack! Entries for the Signal's spring TRENTON writing contest are now being : Fifth War Loan : judged. The contest closed May 31. Results are to be announced in the next issue. STATE SIGNAL C. S. P. A. Medalist '33/34,' 36,' 37/38/41/43 VOL. LVIII, No. 13 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE AT TRENTON, NEW JERSEY FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1944 Young Frenchman, Assembly Speaker British Educator Honored— History Instructor Pierre Clemenceau Tells Of Revised Retires From Staff; Coming to Kendall Education Plans Spent 14 Years Here Grandson of "Tiger of France" Hon. Kenneth Lindsay Addresses Miss Cunningham Reviews Her Now Touring U. S.; Represents Students In Special Assembly Accomplishments and Farewell French Supply Council Party Is Given In Honor of Last Friday, State Teachers College Service At State Pierre Clemenceau, brilliant and was thrilled by the dynamic personality courageous young French patriot, who of o ne of the most fascinating speakers As June returns and the activities of is grandson of Georges Clemenceau, we have ever heard in Kendall Hall. college life on our campus are for Premier of France during the First The Honorable Kenneth Lindsay came some suspended, until September and World War, will speak in Kendall Hall to this country in 1922 as a member for others terminated, we are re­ Tuesday, June 20. He was sent to of the Oxford debating team and be­ minded of that venerable but timely Washington from West Africa by the came so interested in the United adage "There is nothing constant but French National Committee as a mem­ States that he stayeti for eighteen change." Yet, as we say our "good­ ber of the French Supply Council. months studying and traveling about byes" to those who leave, we know the country. Had Thrilling Career very well that certain loyalties are durable. Realizing this we take ad­ Member of Parliament Mr. Clemenceau has had a very in­ vantage of our opportunity to express teresting and exciting career. He was Mr. Lindsay has been a member of through the Signal our appreciation in the French army during the Battle Parliament for twelve years from the of Miss Margaret Miller, instructor in of France and he escaped German oc­ Scottish constituency where he is the history department, who is retir­ Pierre Clemenceau Miss Margaret Miller cupation in December, 1940. He lived seated as an Independent. He was ing this year from active teaching in Dakar, West Africa, until the ar­ Secretary of Education in the cabinet Despite a rather ominous sky and and whose resoluteness in the fulfill­ rival of the American forces. How­ for five years before Winston Churchill ment of her commitments (both aca­ ever, after a trip to Algiers, he was Dr. Pastor, Peruvian came into the ministry. an occasional rumble of distant thun­ der, the faculty enjoyed on Thursday demic and extra-curricular) has estab­ sent to Washington. Mr. Lindsay's interest lies in adult afternoon, June 1, in "The Dell" back lished her firmly in the esteem of both Before the war he traveled widely Supervisor, Visits U. S. and labor education as well as the edu­ of Allen House, an informal reception faculty and students. in Europe and the Americas in the cation of the children of the British. interest of his business in West Africa. Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Pastor, Direc­ to honor Miss Miller, who is retiring Began a t State in '30 He is visiting the United States un­ from our Trenton group. The "Well" For two years he was in India and tor of Normal Schools in Peru, visited der the auspices of the British Infor­ with its "Old Oaken Bucket," con­ This characteristic seems to have Afghanistan and was the first to drive the college following the International mation Office to talk with American ceived by Dr. Kuhn and sketched on distinguished Miss Miller's profes­ a motor car from the Persian border Labor Organization meeting at Phila­ educators about the problems of edu­ sional service before she came to the invitations by Miss Burgard, held to Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. delphia to which he was a delegate. cation here and in England. A. Spen­ something more than atmosphere and Trenton, for in 1930, when I was cross­ He has been lecturing in the United His visit here was arranged through cer Miller, who spoke here at the ing the Atlantic with Miss McCrickett, the Office of Coordinator on Inter­ suggestion as Miss Jarrold later re­ States for quite a while now. He sym­ Alumni Day luncheon, was in England vealed. who had known her in Ypsilanti, Mich­ national Affairs in Washington, and as on somewhat a similar mission. He, bolizes the undying spirit of the Under the shelter of large, colorful igan, I heard much of her generous guest of the United States Govern­ together with Commissioner Bossart, spending of time and energy with in­ Frenchmen who are now crying for sun umbrellas, we sat comfortably in the tools with which to drive out the ment, he was given the opportunity to made this trip possible for Mr. Lind­ dividual students on special assign­ visit a number of the educational in­ say. groups to enjoy each other's society invader. and the delicious, attractively-served ments in order to bring their work to stitutions in this area. The student body is indeed indebted sandwiches, cookies and iced punch. acceptable standards. Miss Miller's to Mr. Lindsay for his contributions to In his office in the Ministry of Edu­ Then, at the auspicious moment, the teaching outside of this Ypsilanti ex­ President West Attends our thinking on this vital problem of cation Dr. Pastor has supervision over summons came, and we followed "The perience was in the State Normal education in our modern world. Education Conference twenty-six Peruvian normal schools, Millers" to "The Well," itself where School of Bridgeport, Conn. She also some of which are small, and some Miss Jarrold, with her usual tact and served as principal of a grammar located in rural areas. school in Hornell, N. Y. President Roscoe L. West spent four Students on summer vacation wit, drew from its depths and pre­ Dr. Pastor has also been a profes­ In her undergraduate years she stud­ days this week at the International will be happy to hear that they sented to Miss Miller the oxidized sor of Roman law at the University ied at Pottsdam State Normal, New Assembly on Education at Hood Col­ will receive their copy of the bronze tray and bowl filled with or San Marcos, the oldest university York State, and at Syracuse University lege, Frederick, Maryland. This as­ Signal regularly during the sum­ "enough good wishes to satisfy Old in this hemisphere, which was char­ where she majored in history. Her sembly convenes every six months mer season. The Social Board King Cole, himself." tered in the sixteenth century. association with Dr. Mace, head of the drawing many celebrities from the has generously offered to fold and After Miss Miller's gracious accept­ During his stay on the campus Dr. history department, of Syracuse, has educational world to its meetings. In mail copies of the paper to all ance of the gift, in which she promised Pastor visited the speech department never to allow anything with which been one of her substantial pleasures. September of last year representatives where he was able to make two re­ those students who are not on she might fill the bowl to displace the He has stopped in Trenton deveral of occupied European nations and of cordings, one to take back to Peru campus. Students are requested good wishes that Miss Jarrold had times on his way from Norfolk, Va., the allied nations met to discuss prob­ with him telling the students of the to wr ite in a bout their activities summoned from the well for her in to Syracuse because he enjoys keeping lems of education and the possibility normal schools there about our teacher and to report special events to behalf of the faculty, we said our in touch with his "majors." Miss Mil­ of an international office of education training colleges here, and the other the editors. after the war. "good-byes" and thanked our commit­ ler s graduate work was done at record to be kept by our foreign lan­ tee for a very pleasant party. Teachers College, Columbia Univer­ guage department for the use of the sity, where she received her M.A. Student Exec. Board students. Dr. Pastor's visit is a part of the To Reside on Farm Reports Year's Work inter-American movement to promote State Students Journey To Lehigh As she returns to northern New friendship and understanding between York State, where her father settled The activities of the Student Execu­ our Latin-American neighbors and For the 31th Annual Bach Festival on a large farm in the St. Lawrence tive Board during the summer of 1943 ourselves. River Valley after coming over from and the college year 1943-44 h ave been By GERALD BOVELL. the back of the bus (away from the Glasgow, Scotland, we express to her easily maintained, there being the SIGNAL DISCLOSES With a sudden decision and last min­ door) began to anticipate a jolly swim our best wishes for interesting and natural pressure of business inciden­ ute permission to use the bus, our happy days to come. Perhaps she will DISPLAY ACQUISITION in the river, but with the help and tal to a changing college program or small group gathered at Green Hall guidance of a policeman, trolley pas­ return to visit us, and—incidentally— stimulated by war interests.